Walking around BSB

The mosque over the river

Today we had a bit of a lie-in and then met our friend Laura to go for a walk around Bandar Seri Begawan.

The pretty village

Water village

Walking around the water village, the biggest in the world

It was a really hot day and even more humid but still a great day. We took a walk around the water village which the locals nickname it as ‘South East Asia’s Venice’ and it is apparently the largest water village in the world. It was huge and has been there for over 600 years so was great to get the chance to walk around there. We then went to the Sultan’s Museum to have a look around, this was mainly due to it being fully air-conditioned so we could dry off before rushing back to a café as it started to rain.

Our driver

Me enjoying passing through the water village

A shell garage

Filling up with petrol on the river

Local boys going for a late night swim

A fire station on the water

Early evening we decided to go on a boat trip around the river managing to haggle the trip down to 15 ringgit (£3) and saw probiscus monkeys, fireflies, the Sultan’s Palace and went through the water village again. Photos didn’t however turn out great as it was dusk but well worth the trip.

The River Brunei

A firefly that landed on Chris' hand... Look closely and you can work it out

A tug-of-war game we randomly came across

When we got off the boat though, the skipper tried to rip us off by saying that it was 15 ringgit per hour and as we were gone two, it was double the price and certainly NOT what we agreed, so basically just laughed at him and walked off, which was a shame as we thought he was lovely.

written by

chrischarly on May 22, 2011 from Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei

from the travel blog: Chris and Charly's Passage through SE Asia

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Whats this BSB.. Can you please explain it..

written by 505 b 2 on May 25, 2011

BSB is what all the locals in Brunei call their capitol city, [[Brunei/Bandar-Seri-Begawan]]. It is a lot easier than repeating 'Bandar Seri Begawin. Sorry, I thought that would be obvious as it said on the blog entry where we were.

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chrischarly on May 26, 2011

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